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Lenny Wilkens

1937 - Today

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Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as a player, as a coach in 1998, and in 2010 as part of the 1992 United States Olympic "Dream Team," for which he was an assistant coach. In 1996, Wilkens was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team, and in 2021 he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lenny Wilkens has received more than 1,421,705 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Lenny Wilkens is the 58th most popular basketball player (down from 56th in 2019), the 4,372nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,718th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 30

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  • 2.66

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  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Lenny Wilkens ranks 58 out of 1,268Before him are Muggsy Bogues, Bogdan Tanjević, Kevin Durant, Robert Parish, Pete Maravich, and Chuck Daly. After him are Oscar Schmidt, David Robinson, Alexander Gomelsky, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Tony Parker, and Isaiah Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Lenny Wilkens ranks 229Before him are Hildegard Behrens, Boris Cyrulnik, Andrei Bitov, Miguel Trovoada, Tom Stoppard, and Alice Coltrane. After him are Barbara Babcock, Shirley Eaton, Michael Sata, Una Stubbs, Boris Yegorov, and Milutin Šoškić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lenny Wilkens ranks 4,372 out of 18,182Before him are Charles Fox Parham (1873), Alice Coltrane (1937), Wil Wheaton (1972), Edward Robinson (1794), John Corbett (1961), and Billy Herrington (1969). After him are Richard Yates (1926), Charles F. Brush (1849), Greg Mankiw (1958), Harrison Ford (1884), Tom Mix (1880), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, Lenny Wilkens ranks 40Before him are Reggie Miller (1965), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Kevin Durant (1988), Robert Parish (1953), Pete Maravich (1947), and Chuck Daly (1930). After him are David Robinson (1965), Isaiah Thomas (1989), Elvin Hayes (1945), Nate Thurmond (1941), Nikos Galis (1957), and Jerry Sloan (1942).